Assessment of global cloud datasets from satellites: Project and database initiated by the GEWEX radiation panel

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1031-1049

  Stubenrauch, C J ^a   Rossow, W B ^b   Kinne, S ^c   Ackerman, S ^d   Cesana, G ^a   Chepfer, H ^a   Di Girolamo, L ^e   Getzewich, B ^f   Guignard, A ^a   Heidinger, A ^g   Maddux, B C ^d   Menzel, W P ^d   Minnis, P ^h   Pearl, C ^b   Platnick, S ⁱ   Poulsen, C ^j   Riedi, J ^k   Sun Mack, S ^f   Walther, A ^d   Winker, D ^h   Zeng, S ^k   Zhao, G ^e   more..

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^g NOAA/NESDIS/STAR   (United States)

^h NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^j RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^k Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique CNRS   (France)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROPERTIES; EARTH'S SURFACE; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; PASSIVE SATELLITES; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SATELLITE SENSORS; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

SATELLITES;

EID: 84880884170     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00117.1     Document Type: Article

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